Honest, it's all about starting location. New players starting in Faydwer, or in Antonica from Rivervale, Oggok, over towards Freeport all have good options for unloading their scavenged crap for banded armor or weapons in EC ranging from 20 to 50pp. For those in Faydwer it's a boat ride over, banking all of your crap after buying what you need, and punching out a guard to Ranger Gate back home.
Iksar kinda get boned. They get a bazillion bone chips with no simple way of getting them to market, almost no higher level people that will sell banded armor cheap or combine their mats at a forge (easy as shit to do in North Freeport if you beg), etc.
While it's really possible to run a level 1 Iksar to the Overthere to hop on a boat, swim to the firepot room, and appear somewhere else, it's the banking part that's the big problem. Invis is sorta needed to bank in Freeport, Kelethin, and Felwithe.
Qeynos is the armpit of Norrath so no one cares about anyone rolling from there, or Erudin.
Edit - thinking it over, I guess an Iksar could blow 20 to 30pp on a cloudy potion set to cover touching a firepot that leads to a risky exit point + banking use. That's about what a Druid would expect for a tip so the boat / firepot route is still viable to unload crap in EC. It's just extra time consuming.
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